Automation with OpenTofu¶

OpenTofu Features¶

Backend for state and lock¶

The backend defines where OpenTofu stores its state data files. And some of the backend types support locking of the state file as well to avoid multiple process (or multiple people) making changes to the state file at the same time. Available backends are listed on the OpenTofu documentation

OpenTofu CLI¶

Some of the most used tofu commands are listed below.

Init¶

tofu init

Plan¶

tofu plan

To save the output of the plan command:

tofu plan -out tfplan

Apply¶

tofu apply

For auto approval:

tofu apply -auto-approve

If the outplan of the plan command was previously saved, it can be passed to the apply command:

tofu apply tfplan

Destroy¶

To destroy/remove all the provisioned resources:

tofu destroy